This is the "gilded age" of any given technology, "a great surge of development", as Ms Perez calls technological revolutions.The second, or "deployment", period is a much more boring affair.
Among these variables, funding availability and allocation are significant factors since they can dictate priorities and shape the direction of technological development, elements that impact the eventual sustainability and success of a given technology, and thus its robustness.
Patents, after all, are government-endorsed monopolies for a given technology for a specified period.
Ultimately, of course, a given technology will only ever be as culturally interesting as what artists do with it.
That kind of reasoning has given technology a large share of the credit for the American economy's strong -- and sometimes puzzling -- productivity gains for the last several years.
Aides to several governors said that given technology today, it is extremely rare for a governor to be out of touch.
At CCRMA, he and his students carry on the computer-music tradition of deducing how features of a given technology can be exploited to do something unintended.
The rise of higher-speed data transfer networks, however, has given technology companies a chance to move farther from large populations and still be able to get information to them as quickly as they need it.
In doing so he was able to suggest strategies for maximizing the capacity of a given channel and showed the limits of what was possible with a given technology.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 S-curves for a given technology [13].
The focus is patents and patent applications from a given technology area or company patent portfolio.
